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Repairs
My dvd player broke a few days ago - no idea why. It just stopped in the middle of Frasier, wouldn't play anything, wouldn't open the disc-thingy, wouldn't turn off, and was stubbornly refusing to tell me why.
So I tried everything I could think of (turning off the powerpoint, unplugging the leads, and pressing pretty much every button on my remote), and then opened the manual and tried everything that suggested, and my dvd player still was sitting there not doing anything.
...so I rang my dad.
(My dad has a strange superpower which allows him to spontaneously make things work just by being in the room. Once, he went overseas for five weeks, and our cd player broke down the day he left. We couldn't do anything to make it turn on. And then, when he got back, we said "Dad, the cd player's not working," and he walked into the lounge, turned the cd player on, and said "What's the problem?"
He is incredible.)
Sure enough, my dad had only to reach out and touch my dvd player for a moment, and it instantly fixed itself and started behaving properly...
So I tried everything I could think of (turning off the powerpoint, unplugging the leads, and pressing pretty much every button on my remote), and then opened the manual and tried everything that suggested, and my dvd player still was sitting there not doing anything.
...so I rang my dad.
(My dad has a strange superpower which allows him to spontaneously make things work just by being in the room. Once, he went overseas for five weeks, and our cd player broke down the day he left. We couldn't do anything to make it turn on. And then, when he got back, we said "Dad, the cd player's not working," and he walked into the lounge, turned the cd player on, and said "What's the problem?"
He is incredible.)
Sure enough, my dad had only to reach out and touch my dvd player for a moment, and it instantly fixed itself and started behaving properly...
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You need to leave offerings at his shrine more frequently, obviously.
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One day you'll come home and find nothing working....and then have to remember what you might have done to incur His Wrath. Not fun.
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...computers hate me. Not right now, luckily, but in general...I wish to be their BFF, and they don't want to be mine.
*cries*
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Heh. You might notice that one of my LJ tags says exactly that.
*pets you sympathetically*
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Also, whoa. Australian time thingy is different. What date is it for you over there? The 19th or the 20th? Or the 18th?
...yeah, I suck at time zones. :P
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You guys are eight hours ahead of us... yesterday.
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Australia is the secret to time travel!
(Also, dude. I WANT a jetpack. *whines*)
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:)
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My mother is your father's exact opposite. I am occasionally a little dismissive of her medievalist ways, but under her circumstances.....
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Once at a friend's house, I said, "Oooh..what a pretty computer!" Reached out and just barely touched the top of it, without being near any buttons or anything, and it instantly powered down and hasn't turned back on since. That was at least two months ago.
-hides from technology-